January 5th Deaths (Here)January 5th Events:1477 – Charles the Bold is killed & Burgundy becomes part of France (at Battle of Nancy).1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.1527 – Felix Manz (leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich), is executed by drowning.1554 – Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.1675 – Battle of Colmar - French army beats Brandenburg.1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens.1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.1781 – The British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold, burn Richmond, Virginia (American Revolutionary War).1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.1889 – Preston North End (English Football team) is declared winner of the original football league.1895 – Dreyfus Affair - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank & sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.1896 – Austrian newspaper first reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation; would later be known as X-rays.1900 – Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.1909 – Colombia first recognizes the independence of Panama.1911 – The Worlds 2nd oldest & largest Black Fraternity (Kappa Alpha Psi), is founded at Indiana University.1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.1913 – First Balkan War (Naval Battle of Lemnos) - Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles.1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an 8-hour working day & a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labour.1918 – The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace (later to be the Nazi Party) is founded.1925 – First female governor in the United States - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming.1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.1945 – The Soviet Union first recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.1968 – "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia - Alexander Dubček comes to power.1972 – Development of a space shuttle program is ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon.1974 – Warmest (reliable) temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station.1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the Lake Illawarra (bulk ore carrier).1976 – Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.1993 – Oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands.1993 – Westley Allan Dodd is executed by hanging in Washington state (the last legal hanging in America).2003 – London (UK) - police arrest 7 suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.2005 – Discovery of Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system.